Milestones, Oct. 21, 1940

Divorced. George Grant Mason Jr., 36, wealthy socialite Civil Aeronautics Authority member; by blonde Washington socialite Jane Kendall Mason, 30, whom Grace Goodhue Coolidge called the "most beautiful girl ever to enter the White House"; after 13 married years; in Tampa, Fla.

Died. Tom Mix, 60, oldtime cinestar of 370 Western films; instantly, when his car turned over near Florence, Ariz. Pennsylvania-born (but publicized as Western-born, Indian-blooded), he rough-rode with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt through the Spanish-American War, did not go West until he was 26, joined famed Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. He soldiered in the Philippines, Boer War, China's Boxer...

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